Harry Semels Movies

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and...

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a...

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife...

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant....

Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean...

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".